by Calvin Sun | Apr 11, 2015 | Fit for Foodies, Illinois, Spring 2015: The Great USA Roadtrip
After an unbelievable 12 hour drive across 553 miles from Needles to San Francisco, let alone 2 weeks of cross-country traveling from the East Coast to the West Coast, we had to pack up and head back to Chicago to speak about travel at a national youth conference in...
by Calvin Sun | Feb 10, 2015 | Fit for Foodies, Louisiana, United States, Walking Tours
A few days later I headed south with two days in The Big Easy, aka New Orleans, LA. Once again Jenn Li, continuing her sabbatical across America, had arrived a few hours earlier and was waiting for me at our AirBnB that she found. We didn’t...
by Calvin Sun | Dec 13, 2014 | Blitzkrieg!!!, Brunei Darussalam, Fit for Foodies, Rules Are Meant To Be Broken, Serendipitous!, Walking Tours, Way Way Off the Beaten Path, Winter 2014: Extreme SE Asia
Jame’Asri Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah mosque just got served: Our group departed East Timor-Leste the next morning for Bali, where the plan was to spend another day before leaving the next morning for Manila. But it would be in Bali where...
by Calvin Sun | Dec 8, 2014 | Blitzkrieg!!!, Epiphanies on the Road, Fail, Fit for Foodies, How Did You Do That?, Indonesia, Introspection, Lessons Learned, Mo' Money Mo' Problems, The Philippines, Winter 2014: Extreme SE Asia
In the last post I described the massive risk we were taking rebooking a flight from the Philippines to Bali after a later flight of ours was cancelled because of the typhoon. Well, we made it. Not even a typhoon can stop the monsoon! After...
by Calvin Sun | Jun 27, 2013 | Costa Rica, Fit for Foodies, Summer 2013: Central America, Walking Tours
Today we explored the lovely little town of Quepos, which was once underwater filled with mangroves (thanks for that Jenn Gao!), and is so small it only takes 3 hours to see everything, even if you’re walking really really slowly: We struck up a...
